For the Dying CalvesAuthor :
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Poetically written and originally given as lectures, this is a moving essay collection from Durs GrA¼nbein. In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs GrA¼nbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldnâ?Tt poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead? A In the form of a collage or â?ophotosynthesis,â?? in image and text, GrA¼nbein lets the fundamental opposition between poetic license and almost overwhelming bondage to history appear in an exemplary way. From the seeming trifle of a stamp with the portrait of Adolf Hitler, he moves through the phenomenon of the â?oFA¼hrerâ?Ts streetsâ?? and into the inferno of aerial warfare. In the end, GrA¼nbein argues that we are faced with the powerlessness of writing and the realization, valid to this day, that comes from confronting history. As he muses, â?oThere is something beyond literature that questions all writing.â??
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